So cycling is a business, I can accept that with lump in throat and some discomfort. So let's use a business analogy to analyse what happened and what should happen now.
Pro cycling is a company lets say. The teams are business divisions, the UCI is the execurive management of the company (the board). It's been proven many of the divisions had corrupt managers and staff, both junior and senior. The board knew what was going on, problems in the company, evidenced by years of positive drug tests. The company then has a major corruption incident as the climax event - ie the curernt USADA revelations. The board failed to prevent it. Further the board's complicity in the scandal is evident, there's also evidence the board had knowledge of what was going on, evidence to suggest the CEO took bribes, and proof the board took improper payments (ie donations from Armstrong). In the business world the CEO would be in damage control over-drive, would have to explain himself at least, and would probably have to go (eg Tony hayward at BP after the Gulf of Mexico blowout), along with other implicated decision makers. Criminal charges might well be forthcoming.
The same needs to happen to the UCI. Armstrong is in a way just a highly corrupt and unforgiving, star performing, middle/senior manager. It's easy for us to club him because he was the star. But he didn't exisit in isolation, and the UCI perpetuated the environment in which Armstrong and the other corrupt staff in the "company" were able to flourish. They wouldn't have existed otherwise, in an environment of good "corporate governance" and ethical business culture strictly enforced by executive management, as it should be, but wasn't.
So friends the question becomes this i believe: for the sake of our dear sport how do we ensure McQuaid and those donkey's move along? Clean out the board? My only concern is that sports administrators can be the worst breed, and can hang aroung like stale farts, long after all public approval has dried up. Remember that fool Arthur Tunstall in Australia and his remarks on disabled people?
Still, we should never give up. As a super dedicated former fan, right now I couldn't care less about turning on the TdF until I know a sea change has taken place within the sport.